Floor covering with woven face
OwnerGraham Scott, David D. Oakey +1inventors
InventorsGraham Scott, David D. Oakey, John Bradford
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Abstract
Flooring that utilizes sophisticated, self-stabilizing, woven face fabric using relatively heavy “carpet weight” nylon, polyester, PTT or other yarns on modern Jacquard computer controlled looms to produce flat-weave fabrics that are bonded to engineered backing structures. Urethane modified bitumen may be used as a backing layer, and an optional latex precoat may be used on the fabric layer, together with an optional antimicrobial in the precoat.
Claims37
Floor covering, comprising:
- a woven fabric top layer,
- a backing layer positioned below the fabric top layer, and
- a backing fabric below the backing layer.
Floor covering comprising:
- (a) a woven fabric top layer comprising polyester yarn,
- (b) a layer of urethane modified bitumen below the fabric top layer,
- (c) a layer of polyurethane foam below the layer of urethane-modified bitumen,
- (d) a fiberglass fleece web positioned generally between the urethane modified bitumen and the polyurethane foam, and
- (e) a web of woven polypropylene carpet backing below the polyurethane foam.
A method for producing floor covering, comprising the steps of:
- (a) weaving a face fabric on a loom,
- (b) forming a layer of resilient material,
- (c) bonding the resilient layer to a web of backing fabric,
- (d) forming a backing layer,
- (e) positioning a reinforcement web between the backing layer and the resilient layer,
- (f) bonding the backing layer and resilient layer together with the reinforcement web between the backing and resilient layers, and
- (g) bonding the face fabric to the backing layer.
A method for providing a continuous floor covering on a floor comprising the steps of:
- (a) positioning on the floor sections of floor covering completely covering the floor area to be covered, the floor covering comprising a woven fabric top layer, a bottom layer of woven polypropylene carpet backing, and at least one layer between the woven fabric top layer and the woven polypropylene carpet backing,
- (b) cutting the floor covering so that edges of adjacent sections of floor covering are abutting,
- (c) applying adhesive between the underside of the carpet sections and the floor,
- (d) applying fabric edge sealer to adjacent fabric top layer edges,
- (e) applying carpet seam sealer to at least adjacent carpet backing edges, and
- (g) with the floor covering sections positioned on the floor with edges positioned in abutting relationship, permitting the adhesive, seam sealer and fabric edge sealer to cure.
The method for providing a continuous floor covering of 36, in which the fabric edge sealer is a polyester urethane.
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